Lisa Emery (born January 29, 1952) is an American stage, film, and
television actress. Emery is best known to television viewers for
playing Darlene Snell on Netflix series Ozark.Emery was born in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of an aspiring actress from
Charlottesville, Virginia and an advertising executive who worked in
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. She attended Hollins College, where she
planned to study painting, but became interested in drama classes
instead because "they were having way more fun." After graduation she
studied at the Circle in the Square Theatre School for a year, then
began to audition.Emery moved to New York with her then longtime
boyfriend. They eventually broke up and she enrolled in the Circle in
the Square two-year program. She ended up moving into the East Village
in 1982 where she currently resides.Emery's theatre credits include
The Matchmaker, Dinner with Friends (1999), What the Butler Saw
(2000), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (2006), Talley & Son, Burn This
(1987), Rumors, Present Laughter, The Women (2001), Marvin's Room
(1991), Abigail's Party (2005), and Relatively Speaking (2011). She
has been nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured
Actress in a Play three times.
television actress. Emery is best known to television viewers for
playing Darlene Snell on Netflix series Ozark.Emery was born in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of an aspiring actress from
Charlottesville, Virginia and an advertising executive who worked in
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. She attended Hollins College, where she
planned to study painting, but became interested in drama classes
instead because "they were having way more fun." After graduation she
studied at the Circle in the Square Theatre School for a year, then
began to audition.Emery moved to New York with her then longtime
boyfriend. They eventually broke up and she enrolled in the Circle in
the Square two-year program. She ended up moving into the East Village
in 1982 where she currently resides.Emery's theatre credits include
The Matchmaker, Dinner with Friends (1999), What the Butler Saw
(2000), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (2006), Talley & Son, Burn This
(1987), Rumors, Present Laughter, The Women (2001), Marvin's Room
(1991), Abigail's Party (2005), and Relatively Speaking (2011). She
has been nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured
Actress in a Play three times.
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